Janeal Crabb Krehbiel has inspired thousands of young lives as a beacon of musical excellence in her community, Kansas, and around the world. A graduate of Bethel College, she earned a Master's degree in Music Education at Wichita State University. Janeal taught elementary vocal music in the Denver Public Schools and later high school vocal music in Hesston, Kansas. For eighteen years, Janeal served as the children's choir director at the Bethel College Mennonite Church and taught fifteen years in Lawrence, Kansas grades 7-9.

Janeal is the founder and director of the Lawrence Children's Choir. Under her direction, the Lawrence Children's Choir was chosen to sing at the 1999 National ACDA Convention, the 1996 Regional ACDA Convention, the 1996 National MENC Convention, and was the featured choir for the World's Largest Concert on PBS in 1994. In 2000 and 2007, the Lawrence Children's Choir was chosen to sing the featured concert at Carnegie Hall for the FSI Festival, where Janeal was the conductor of the National Children's Choir.

In 2005, Janeal was the conductor of the National ACDA Jr. High Honors Choir in Los Angeles. She was a member of the Chorister's Guild Board of Directors and has been a featured clinician at St. Olaf College, Montreat Music Conference, Westminster Choir College, and the North Carolina Summer Institute of the Choral Art.

In December 1999, Janeal was awarded the Outstanding Middle Level Music Educator for Northeastern Kansas and in July 1999, she was the recipient of the Kansas ACDA Harry Robert Wilson Award.